Tim Russert: There goes another familiar face

When the same familiar faces give you the news every day, it’s easy to think they’ll be there forever.

Tim Russert (AP Photo)

Which is why so many of us in the newsroom couldn’t hold in our shock when we heard.

“Tim Russert died?”

And there goes another media icon. Another face we’ll never see.

In his place rise other titans, icons of a different stripe, at home in a different medium — many of them faceless. The Matt Drudges of the world won’t need to look into our eyes to sway our conversation.